Sentence examples for the surface of the idea from inspiring English sources

"You don't settle for the surface of the idea.

This is only part of the story, however, scraping the surface of the hopes and ideas inspired by the 20th-century communist project.

You could say, in a way, that thought is moving horizontally across the surface of the pond from one idea to another.

For example, in the early L'Homme de Rene Descartes (written sometime before 1632), which Claude Clerselier (1614-1684) edited and then published (giving it this title) in 1664, fourteen years after Descartes's death, Descartes tells us that the figures "traced in the spirits on the surface" of the pineal gland are ideas.

This account of the eye refers to another important Empedoclean idea; the surface of the eye has passages through which the effluent fire goes out.

This just scratches the surface of the pool of knowledge, humor, and ideas the elders have given me.

Figure 2.3.1_1 Diagram from Descartes' Treatise of Man (1664), showing the formation of inverted retinal images in the eyes, and the transmission of these images, via the nerves so as to form a single, re-inverted image (an idea) on the surface of the pineal gland.

He was also wrong when he spoke of the "ideas formed on the surface" of the pineal gland, and in his attribution to the pineal of such functions as "volition, cognition, memory, imagination, and reason".

Criticism allows people to dig below the surface of the imagination and come up with collective ideas that aren't predictable.

But Ms. Cardiel never burrowed far beneath the surface of her ideas.

Scratching the surface of her ideas makes Jacobs seem easy to understand.